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It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones
In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage government, says Guardian ...
 *It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain's democratic freedoms end?*
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Starmer targets inflammatory chants at Palestine protests for further curbs
PM says Labour will address suggestions of antisemitic hate as he orders review of protest policing powers
 Starmer says he is investigating how to punish protests that express hatred of Jews. He singled out a chant that calls for some analysis: "globalize the intifada". It has a problem but Starmer seems to have misidentified what the problem is. I don't see any antisemitism in that phrase, but it is a dog whistle that hints at support for terrorism. The word
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TRUMP THREATENS to Jail Chicago Governor and Mayor in Another Step Toward Fascist Dictatorship
The path to the totalitarian dystopia that Donald Trump craves is lined with threats, insults and meritless indictments of his plethora of perceive...
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The Intercept
Black People Knew This Would Happen
Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.
 The wrecker said that Illinois Governor Pritzker should be jailed for "not protecting"
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/sierra-club-blasts-report-of-concierge-white-glove-service-for-fossil-fuel-companies
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 *Sierra Club Blasts Report of "Concierge, White Glove Service” for Fossil Fuel Companies.* That fits with everything the saboteur in chief is saying and doing for them.
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Thames Water court case shows there are alternatives to massive infrastructure
It is what we might call the HS2 fallacy: new reservoirs as tall as high-rise buildings that boost water companies’ assets
2011: September - December Political Notes - Richard Stallman
 The greedy privatized UK water companies want the state to charge the public to build unnatural walled reservoirs and give them as a gift to those water companies. The UK should nationalize those companies, not build assets to inflate their valuation. If indeed those
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The Guardian view on Trump’s Gaza plan: the bloodshed must end, but this proposal betrays Palestinians | Editorial
Editorial: An end to the annihilation, and the release of Israeli hostages, is urgently needed. But lasting peace cannot be built on the denial of ...
 Various countries support the bully's peace plan for Gaza but only in the sense that they are willing to start negotiations from there. It has some fundamental problems.
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The best gig I ever saw cost £4. Spiralling concert prices are a cultural disaster | John Harris
Tickets for big tours have vastly outstripped inflation, while smaller artists and venues struggle. The magic is in danger of being snuffed out ent...
 Concert tickets have exploded in price for the last few decades. It is a disaster for music.
The New Credit Card Scam Infiltrating Your Doctor’s Office
“There should be no door in the doctors’ office that opens to a bank.”
 A new scheme to borrow money to pay medical bills will make it easy for poor Americans the transition from Medicaid (which Republicans have cut) to unpayable medical debt whose interest will drain them constantly.
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Gaza film’s producer accuses BBC of trying to gag him over decision to drop it
Ben de Pear hits out at ‘PR person’ Tim Davie and claims corporation attempted to use legal gagging clauses
 *The producer of a film about medics in Gaza that was dropped by the BBC has accused the corporation of attempting to gag him and others over its decision not to show the documentary..*
the Guardian
Arkansas man, arrested over perfume bottle police mistook for opium, seeks to restore visa
Police thought bottle contained drugs and arrested Kapil Raghu, who was then taken into custody by Ice
 The vindictiveness of deportation thugs: Kapil Raghu was released from deportation prison after they determined that the bottle labeled "opium" contained perfume, not a drug, but 30 days in prison was not enough persecution to satisfy them.